Babies and toddlers

Right from their very earliest days, babies and toddlers can meet and know God. Parents and carers get to be a key part of helping them to do that, and churches, friends and family all make up the supportive community that encourages and equips them on the journey. We also have a lot more posts on parenting babies and toddlers for faith in our Pregnancy and newborns and our Under fives topics.

The book

Parenting for Faith’s slimline book, Babies and Toddlers: Nurturing your child’s spiritual life by Rachel Turner, helps you go on this journey and support those in your church and community to do the same. It costs just £4.99, and we also offer discounted prices for multipacks.

Find out more     Read sample pages     Buy multipacks      Buy now

The videos

We have five short videos, all about nurturing your baby or toddler’s spiritual life, available completely free on our website. On the bite-size babies and toddlers page, you’ll also find a free downloadable guide to help you to run bite-size sessions at pregnancy, baby or toddler groups. They are designed to work for online and in-person groups and to be accessible to those who are new to faith or just exploring as well as those who have been Christians a long time.

The five sessions are:

1. Getting going
2. Keeping it real
3. Connection and communication
4. Bible stories and bedtimes
5. Chatting to God

Infant baptism, dedication or thanksgiving service preparation

We have three videos and a leaders’ guide for families bringing babies or children for infant baptism, dedication or thanksgiving. They aim to affirm the commitment and decision that the family are making and give them simple, practical ideas to nurture faith at home. They don’t assume any prior knowledge of church or Christian language. They are available free on our website, so they can be emailed to the parents, watched with them, written into a card and referred back to at any point. They don’t cover the theology, symbolism or significance of these services or the details of what will happen in the service, so you can customise them to your church and denomination.

The three videos cover:

1. Words
2. Music
3. Community